Archive for the 'Life' Category

Running to catch up

Posted by stacy on July 19th, 2008 filed in Life, Work, Writing

Bah!
It’s been a crazy week around here. Very busy work wise, and there has been some interesting Life Events (when you capitalize it, the events sound bigger. Like asteroids or something.) All good things, details to come.
In consumer news, I ended up buying an iphone so I could be more mobile, while still [...]

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Rock the weekend

Posted by stacy on July 13th, 2008 filed in Life, Music

Spent a very wet Saturday at Edgefest. I think I went to my first Edgefest when I was fifteen, and now here I am, almost thirty. But no matter who’s playing at these outdoor rock festivals, some things never change: The lovely aroma of marijuana and hotdogs. The drunk dude that gets [...]

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Poor Willow

Posted by stacy on July 8th, 2008 filed in Life

It’s storming here again.
As soon as it started raining I ran out on the balcony for urgent, strategic Jade Tree placement. Dubbed ‘Jade Willow’ by Dan, who has a fascination with naming all plants after a certain red-headed witch, it’s been with me less than a month and it’s already starting [...]

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Storyline

Posted by stacy on July 2nd, 2008 filed in Life, Writing

Ho-hum.
I’ve finished the first draft of my alien invasion story, though to be honest, it’s not really ‘finished’ so much as I arrived at an interesting ending that really doesn’t have anything to do with the beginning. This is nothing new for me – I end up reverse engineering a lot of my fiction. I’ll [...]

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Doctor Recommended

Posted by stacy on April 15th, 2008 filed in Life

From The New Smengland Journal of Medicine:
It is essential to have a gap in time that separates and signifies the end of one event and the start of another. A vital part of any transformation, this period of time is referred to “vacation” or, in the colloquial, “slacking”. This time should be spent [...]

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